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In this study, the effects of hydrogen concentration (C) and vent size (AV) on the vented H2/air explosion in an obstructed duct were investigated using experimental methods and FLACS simulation software at an initial pressure and temperature of 101 kPa and 291K, respectively. A vent coefficient KA is chosen to represent AV to illustrate its influence on the explosion venting of H2/air. The results demonstrate that the maximum internal overpressure (pmax) and the maximum external overpressure (pext) increase and then decrease with C increasing from 10% to 60%. The highest pmax and pext are reached at C = 35% in experiments, but achieved at C = 30% in simulations because incomplete chemical reactions were not taken into account. In the tests with C <50%, the flame evolution inside the duct includes five stages: spherical flame, elliptical flame, finger-shaped flame, near-planar flame, and tulip-shaped flame. No tulip flame is observed for C ≥50%. FLACS can simulate the flame structure evolution for various C, but it cannot accurately simulate the flame propagation speed. FLACS overestimates the flame propagation speed in the tests with C ≤25%, but underestimates the flame propagation speed for C ≥35%. Under the initial condition of C = 15%, the above-mentioned five stages of flame evolution can be simulated by FLACS for KA ≤0.4; however, neither the near-plane nor tulip flame is observed in simulations for KA >0.4. © 2024
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International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
ISSN: 0360-3199
Year: 2024
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